I remember Mudhoney coming back from touring Holland & Germany in 1992, totally amazed at the number of people there with Rudi Protrudi haircuts. Meanwhile the Fuzztones could barely fill a 200 capacity club in LA. I only heard a few things & wasn't that impressed.

Fleshtones seemed like a high energy good time band with a sense of humor so I guess I choose them.

Jimbo wrote:I guess I am over Graham Nash's politics. Hopelessly naive by the standards I've molded for myself these days.

The Fuzztones were big in Madrid when I lived there. I never thought they were that great. A friend of mine was on one of their record covers, though. Of all the US garage bands that sojourned in Madrid the best were the Cynics.

Like around 1983, the Fleshtones played a lunchtime gig at my college's student union. Made me a believer.

I don't know how San Jose State booked them, but they had pretty good lunch time shows - I saw the Fleshtones, T-Bone Burnett with Mick Ronson as his guitarist and the Violent Femmes, among others at those shows.